I agree that the lack of backlight keyboard and touch ID isn't a serious limitation but 8 GB of ram would be probably be hardly usable, especially on tahoe.
> And now tech influencers are recommending buying one [M2 MacBook Air] four years later because they don’t want to admit that the MacBook Neo got everything right.
This whole article feels like a thinly veiled ad, or at least extreme fanboyism. It lacks objectivity. It’s a good machine for the price, but no, it did not “get everything right”, and no, not everybody making any criticism or comparison is “lying to you”.
It’s a fine computer. “Tech Bros” say stupid things about low-cost Windows computers too.
If I had a complaint about the Neo, it’s the screen aspect ratio. The smaller the screen, the closer you need to be 3:2. Open a Google doc on a school-issue Chromebook. It’s laughable how little space is available for the actual content on those junk 16:9 screens. This Neo is 16:10. Better, but not a whole lot. A 13” iPad in landscape mode is ~4:3 and an 11” iPad is ~3:2. It’s not like Apple didn’t know, and it’s not like Apple didn’t have access to displays that are better suited to a small machine.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 14.9 ms ] thread> And now tech influencers are recommending buying one [M2 MacBook Air] four years later because they don’t want to admit that the MacBook Neo got everything right.
This whole article feels like a thinly veiled ad, or at least extreme fanboyism. It lacks objectivity. It’s a good machine for the price, but no, it did not “get everything right”, and no, not everybody making any criticism or comparison is “lying to you”.
If I had a complaint about the Neo, it’s the screen aspect ratio. The smaller the screen, the closer you need to be 3:2. Open a Google doc on a school-issue Chromebook. It’s laughable how little space is available for the actual content on those junk 16:9 screens. This Neo is 16:10. Better, but not a whole lot. A 13” iPad in landscape mode is ~4:3 and an 11” iPad is ~3:2. It’s not like Apple didn’t know, and it’s not like Apple didn’t have access to displays that are better suited to a small machine.
Refurbished by Apple devices tend to be really good deals, not sure why this is being knocked. It's also better for the environment